Frank Aazami’s Featured Listing Now offering a timelessly designed and constructed Paradise Valley home . . . With architecture and construction by highly regarded Calvis Wyant and interior design by equally noted Est Est, the classic Mediterranean-style home, 6130 East Mockingbird Road, includes a 10,763-square foot main home with a large master suite; three ensuite bedrooms and a study that could become another; a five-car garage; a 1,056-square-foot stand-alone guest house with an ensuite bedroom and single-bay garage; extensive parking areas; and a 2.185-acre lot with a large lawn and room for expansion. Conveniently built on one level without steps, […]
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About five minutes ago, your wife was stalked into a department store by a man wearing a medical face mask, with two accomplices trailing him, similarly disguised; she’s fine, the police have descriptions and are searching for them. Please come quickly, she texts. Or, you have been receiving email threats from a radical environmental organization accusing you of “unforgivably slaying Mother Earth”; you’re the CEO of a mega-company that, among other lawn-care products, manufactures pesticides. Worse, your daughter has come within seconds of being abducted by sex traffickers a few miles from the luxury home and guard/gated community you have […]
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Mark Vinci jokingly explains that he removed the “da” in respect to the Italian artist of the 15th/16th century, but, for his car parts art, even the great Leonardo would agree he can proudly keep it. Because of the artistry of the 30-year Valley resident, Fords and Chevys, Caddys, Beemers and other marques all receive meticulous restorations. Vinci crushes it every time he works with retired hoods, doors and trunks. “Most of the work I make is created with the materials we see while driving: billboard paper, car parts and glass. The parts are composed into sculptures, and glass is […]
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Aazami on Luxury Real Estate Last month, I discussed my recent trip to New York City where I was honored to join 99 Sotheby’s International Realty top revenue (TOP 100) producers for 2022 in our company’s United States network. My trip reaffirmed how our professionals represent the best practice and properties, providing sellers better market trends, accurate stats and finest exposure for their homes. They consistently demonstrate efficiency and success in reaching qualified buyers both locally and internationally. We collaborated and discussed enhanced tactics to cross-promote, refer, inspire, unite, and motivate our book of business. I am pleased to be […]
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The Equity 1000 team have landed on a great opportunity for those looking for premier private hangar space in the Phoenix area to store their planes, helicopters, collectible cars and more. Their Volare Hangars development is at Pegasus Airpark (5AZ3) in Queen Creek, the award-winning community about an hour from downtown Phoenix and Scottsdale and ten minutes south of the Mesa Gateway Airport. Comprising 24 standard hangars and 10 upgraded executive hangars, 60-by-60 square feet to 80-by-80 square feet, Pegasus is a rare gated aviation- and equestrian-focused community, adjacent to the private airport’s large paved runway, 5,124 feet by 80 […]
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Top 100 Takeaway . . . Recently, I was fortunate to share an evening in New York City with other Top 100 list revenue producers for Sotheby’s International Realty, one of the world’s largest real estate firms. Our company includes 25,000 real estate professionals working from 1,000 offices in 75 countries. The group was told that collectively this year we produced more revenue than any relocation company worldwide; these companies move major corporations from one location to another. To accomplish this level of success through residential real estate, we network with associates to provide our clients the finest properties to […]
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For two decades, the Silverleaf community in north Scottsdale has represented exalted Southwest living. This super-luxury hillside estate home, 10719 E. Rimrock Drive, elevates Silverleaf still higher. The gated community’s first LEED-certified home, the two-story, 13,111-square-foot Formal Mediterranean-style home in the Horseshoe Canyon neighborhood combines environmental excellence, including energy-saving geothermal, luxury spaces and materials, precision craftsmanship and remarkable views toward the mountains and the McDowell Sonoran Preserve. Scottsdale-based Desert Star Construction, guided by its founder and CEO, Jerry Meek, sensitively carved the 9.142-acre homesite from the hillside. The two-level home includes six bedrooms, seven bathrooms and two powder rooms. A […]
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Frank Aazami’s Market Review What’s available today in luxury homes above $16 million? Listing success rate is down to 70%, the lowest we have seen for more than a dozen years, according to our sources at Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Real Estate, Scottsdale. The fall-out rate has dropped dramatically — from 8% to 30% just within the last four months. As a result, buyers can feel empowered: Their dollars buy more, and they can buy the home they want at an improved price or buy a home that’s larger or has more features than the one they might have purchased […]
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Polo fans, the horsepower is back. There is plenty of it at the 11th Annual Bentley Scottsdale Polo Championships: Presented by Talking Stick Resort November 5th at WestWorld of Scottsdale. All your favorites are back including previews of the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction, and hundreds of vehicles on display from car clubs and premier auto dealers, such as Bentley Scottsdale, the title sponsor of the event. Look for Bentley’s driving field side numerous times throughout the event including at the beginning and end of each match. Come see why this is America’s most attended polo event and a luxury event […]
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Jeffrey Benson founded the Benson Agency Group to teach people how to legally set up tax shelters so they don’t have to pay taxes on money they don’t need to. He’s also an expert on helping families create generational wealth through insurance investments. His unique compassion for his clients is one of the many things that sets him apart from the typical agents, representatives, and brokers employed by large companies. Jeffrey states “every home’s foundation is the bedrock of that home. I specialize in providing families, individuals, and business owners their financial bedrock. By working with them to identify their […]
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A gifted and experienced Valley of the Sun team of Parolo Builders LLC, Stratton Architects and the Private Client Group at Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty is offering a desert-jewel custom residence on 9-plus acres surrounded by lush high desert natural beauty and the landmark McDowell Mountains in north Scottsdale. For those with an astute sense for the best, the financial means to demand it and the desire for serenity will find their bliss at what is north Scottsdale’s most desirable real estate. “It’s an island estate in the desert,” says Frank Aazami, RLSIR Brand Ambassador, principal of the Private Client Group […]
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Frank Aazami’s Featured Listing Overlooking Paradise Valley Country Club’s Golf Course, Camelback Mountain and the Phoenix Mountain Preserve, this three-acre hilltop masterpiece high on the southwest slope of Mummy Mountain was envisioned by Major League Baseball’s ‘Chili’ Davis as his desert home run. Designed by architect Dale Gardon and built by Salcito Custom Homes, the luxury cul-de-sac residence provides city lights views through glass walls and from five terraces including one outside the living room, with a home plate that turns on as a firepit. In the Paradise Valley Country Club neighborhood, walking distance from the clubhouse, the 9,395 square-foot two-level has […]
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Frank Aazami’s Featured Listing Discover the many joys of Southwest desert living at Hidden Canyon in the award-winning Las Sendas community of north Mesa. Designed and to be built by Micela Properties, this 9,299-square-foot Modernterranean custom in Mesa’s Las Sendas community offers exclusivity, gated entry, privacy, luxury finishes and smart home amenities. With the saguaro-rich Tonto National Forest immediately behind it, no one will build between you and the mountains; they are yours to enjoy for as long as you choose. Luigi Micela’s year-and-a-half site preparation on the 1.12-acre cul-de-sac parcel has created an expansive footprint and an entertainer’s-style layout, […]
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Globally, it’s been a sellers market for the last few years, characterized by critically low inventory and high demand. It’s now changing fast. Subsequently, all parties need to refocus, restrategize, so that sellers, buyers and, yes, agents, too, can achieve best-possible outcomes. Of course, you’ll still get good money for your luxury Valley residence and in good time, especially if it was built top tier and in a premium guard/gated community such as Silverleaf, with its McDowell Sonoran Preserve accessibility, amenity-rich clubhouse and championship golf. People have been moving to Arizona in record numbers since air-conditioning came to the Valley […]
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From slimming down to boosting up, Scottsdale-area residents are flocking to DermaCrush to look and feel their best Last year, the global medical spa market size saw a major boost in interest and activity from people coming out of lockdown measures. From tummy tucks to lip injections to laser hair removal, after a year indoors, these procedures and more skyrocketed across the country. In fact, the global market for medical spas is expected to reach nearly $37 billion by 2028, a 14% rise in total from 2021. One of those medical spas leading the way in the Phoenix area is […]
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The Aerie is residential excellence –– an estate home built to uncompromised standards of design, décor, furnishings, landscaping and outdoor appointments. The Modern/Transitional-style home is in highly desirable Laurel Lane Estates along the Cactus Corridor and within minutes of the many recreational, cultural, sports, shopping and culinary opportunities of Scottsdale. Built in 2001, the gated five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bathroom home, 10754 East Laurel Lane, includes a four-car garage and showcases interiors completed about a year ago by one of Scottsdale’s finest designers, Cristin Graham, accommodating both large-scale entertaining, intimate gatherings and everyday living. Life is a series of moments, and The Aerie […]
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Inflation is soaring toward 8%, pushing interest rates higher. Treasury yield curves are inverting, typically an early warning sign of recession. What can you bank on to ensure the stability of your portfolio? Consider gold, silver, platinum, and palladium bullion coins and bars from First National Bullion. With four locations in Arizona and southern California, the company buys and sells gold, silver, platinum and palladium bullion bars and coins. Those stores are in Scottsdale and San Diego, Del Mar and Carlsbad, California, with shipping available to all 50 states. A fifth location opens soon in Irvine. “Having physical locations allows […]
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By Land or By Water, Christopher Dixon Helps Clients See the Proper Payout for Accidents of All Kinds Summer is fast approaching, meaning for most people throughout the country it’s the perfect time to take off on the open road for a classic summer road trip. And for luxury auto owners, it’s the ideal time to take the tarp off their favorite wheels for joyrides up the coast, through the country or for a night out downtown. But while summer might be ideal to break out the exotic cars, having to protect them from everything from dings and dents to […]
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The plans for Bentley Residences are a paragon of design brilliance. The newly opened sales gallery in Sunny Isles Beach, Miami, Florida, celebrates the design achievements so far, and builds anticipation and excitement surrounding the project, that is due to complete in 2026. Spanning 12,000 sqft, the sales gallery offers buyers a first-hand glimpse at the private beachfront one-of-a-kind development of 216 residences. A suite of renders has been released giving a preview of the luxurious communal spaces, wellness and lifestyle amenities, as well as the plans for the private residences themselves. Each of these spaces has been designed to […]
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Panorama Estates is 80 acres of possibilities in Arizona Wine Country. The new central Arizona single-home community is on the east side of Page Springs Road at Winter Sun Drive in Cornville, a town about an hour and a half north of Phoenix/Scottsdale. Out of the 69 approximately lots, 64 are available, says Frank Aazami, principal of the Private Client Group at Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty in Scottsdale. The parcels begin at just more than three-quarters and will be sold in two phases. The asphalt-paved streets have been completed. Also in place are the fire hydrants, street drainage and […]
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Frank Aazami’s Featured Listing This gated hillside estate celebrates Hacienda-style architecture in the Silverleaf golf community of north Scottsdale. The 6.250-acre mountainside sanctuary, 10738 East Diamond Rim, offers both privacy and connectedness to the lush High Sonoran Desert. On the west side of the McDowell Mountains and backing to the country’s largest municipal nature preserve, the 15,603-square-foot home was designed by acclaimed architect John Sather, AIA, AICP, senior partner of SWABACK Architects + Planners, and built by the distinguished Salcito Custom Homes, both Scottsdale. For Sather, the home is timeless in design and its vision as a small village. “Given […]
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The AZ Jet Center Event takes place Saturday February 26, 2022, at Sawyer Aviation Private Hangars, 15035 North 73rd Street. From 6 p.m.–10 p.m., guests will enjoy Sawyer’s charter and training aircraft, rare exotic and historic collector cars, live music from Notes from Neptune (NotesFromNeptune.com), fine art, high fashion, gourmet food and premium spirits and fine wines, hosted by Paul and Shannon Hoffman, owners of Desert Rock Winery & Distillery in the Airpark (desertrockin.com). The Jet Center Foundation, a 501c(3) nonprofit, supports several groups. First, Wings of Humanity provides no-cost medical air transport for children, providing access to vital medical […]
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Tanya Shively creates luxury home interiors that cultivate wellness. To do this, she and her Scottsdale team extend the traditional interior design scope beyond furnishings, artwork and lighting to include multi-sensuous elements, natural components, technology and ancient insights. “My general philosophy is to do everything with balance, and that means technology can provide great benefits and comfort and convenience features, but the old ways also were developed with many years of practice and have much to offer as well,” says Shively, who pioneered “green,” health-focused interior design in the Valley 16 years ago. Her Sesshu Design Associates, 3666 North Miller […]
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Who’s the Boss? You’ll know a Bawse when you see it. Ricardo Baptiste, Founder and CEO of Bawse Life Exotics, is sure of his premium rentals and sure of success. Opened at the Tempe showroom in January 2021, his company rents American, English, Italian, European and Japanese sports cars and luxury grand tourers in metro Phoenix/Scottsdale for short and long terms beginning at $199 per diem. The inventory currently includes top marques and models such as the Audi R8 Spyder, Bentley Flying Spur, BMW I8, the mid-engine Corvette C8, Ferrari FF, Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, Lexus LC500, Maserati Ghibli S Q4, […]
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